Qin Lang was still seeking a breakthrough in Hedong, and at this time, Sima Yi was already a little anxious.

Although the situation in Yongqiu is still under Sima Yi's control, the situation is slowly becoming unfavorable to Great Wei.

In the final analysis, now Sima Yi is at a disadvantage in terms of both the size of his troops and the strategic situation, and he can maintain his current status under the attack of an enemy twice his size, and Sima Yi has done his best.

The most troublesome thing for Sima Yi is that there are too few reliable generals under his command.

What kind of leading general is opposite the Shu thief?!

Xu Shu sat in the Chinese army, controlled the overall situation, Yongqiu City direction, Guan Ping, Guan Xing, Guan Suo, Zhang Wei and others were generals, outside the city, Kou Feng, Deng Ai, Biqiu Jian, Wang Ping were in their own hands for the generals, and even Cao Shuang had to be sent out as a responder.

How can this be compared.

In those years, what was important was "the courage of the soldiers." A good general had a very great impact on the war situation.

But the current situation is that the famous generals on the opposite side are like clouds, and on the side of Da Wei and Cao Shuang, there are a total of three generals who can be named.

In the direction of Yongqiu City, because it is to defend the city, coupled with Sima Yi personally sitting in the town, in the face of several juniors of the Guan family and Xu Shu, Sima Yi can still guard the city and not fall behind. Chen Tai, who was camped outside the city, was unlucky.

Chen Tai is really working hard now.

This kind of hardship is not physical hardship, but psychological suffering.

Chen Tai's opponents are Kou Feng, Deng Ai, Biqiu Jian, and Wang Ping. Which of these people is not a famous general?!

Especially Deng Ai, after several battles, Chen Tai found that Deng Ai is really capable of commanding the army, and he can pinch other generals in the Shu thief army well and make offensive arrangements. This is the commander-in-chief's asset.

If Kou Feng and the others just fought on their own, and they did not subordinate each other and did not cooperate, then Chen Tai could be a little easier to defend it, but now. Chen Tai finally understood why Sima Yi had always admired Deng Ai.

Deng Ai is probably another commander-type talent after Zhang Xi, Wei Yan and others.

On my own, on the other hand. Hu Tai, Zhang Ge, Wang Yi, Xu Gai, is one of them a famous general? !

Oh, there's the son of a famous general.

Xu Gai is the son of Xu Huang, a famous general of the Great Wei Dynasty.

But Xu Gai's ability is relatively poor in the second generation of famous generals, and Zhang Hu and Le Qi, who stayed in Yecheng, are much stronger than him.

Now Chen Tai is going to lead such a group of things to fight against a random lineup of famous generals on the Shu thief's side.

Chen Tai really doesn't want to use it, but he can't use it yet.

Sima Yi gave Chen Tai 30,000 soldiers and horses, and asked him to go out of the city to set up a camp defense line and divide his troops to the enemy.

30,000 people, it's not that he Chen Tai built a big camp outside the city, and then encircled 30,000 people inside to defend it, if Chen Tai might as well build a new city directly.

The 30,000-strong garrison is to build at least four or five large camps and a dozen small camps, and to establish a defensive line of camps by connecting these large and small camps in series.

The content of the large camp accommodates thousands of people, and the content of the small camp accommodates hundreds of people. In the small camp, a general or a lieutenant can be arranged to command, but in the large camp, Chen Tai must arrange a chief general to be responsible for commanding several small camps nearby.

Therefore, these four things can no longer be used, and Chen Tai cannot do without them, he must maintain the operation of the entire camp defense line by directing them.

It is necessary to use it, but the effect of using it is the reason why Chen Tai feels tired now.

This kind of arming method should have been that you have me, I have you, one side is attacked, and the other three parties can support each other in time, so as to support each other and hold the line of defense.

But the ability of the four nameless generals on his side is really not good, especially compared with the four Shu generals on the opposite side, it is simply miserable.

If one side is attacked, with the support of the three parties, it may not be able to successfully repel the enemy army, and if both sides are attacked at the same time, Chen Tai must personally lead the troops to rescue.

This battle has been fought for almost a month, and Chen Tai can't figure out when it started, and it has become a norm for him to take his headquarters to fight fires everywhere.

In this case, it is strange that Chen Tai's pressure can be small.

And just five days ago, the big camp in the northwest corner, which was garrisoned by Hu Tai, and the three small camps around it, because Chen Tai could not rescue them in time, finally failed to hold them.

There was a gap in the entire defense line, which caused Chen Tai to have to readjust his strategic deployment, and during the period of retreating to establish a new defense line, Chen Tai was under more pressure.

For this reason, Chen Tai had to ask Sima Yi of Yongqiu County for help on the one hand, informing him of the current defense situation outside the city, and on the other hand, asking for help from Cao Shuang, who was responsible for responding to the situation in the rear, hoping to rush to help him defend at a critical moment.

Sima Yi is okay here, after receiving Chen Tai's military report, Sima Yi is indeed trying to figure out how to adjust the strategic deployment.

But Cao Shuang's side, when he saw Chen Tai's report for help, he directly pretended not to see it.

You Chen Tai has 30,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, so he is so embarrassed and struggling, and in less than a month, he asked for help from the rear Lao Tzu has 10,000 people in his hands, and if he goes, he will be sent to death? !

Besides, Cao Shuang also has a legitimate reason not to send troops.

He is obviously behind Yongqiu, but near his own camp, he can often find the cavalry scouts of Shu thieves. If he rashly sent troops to deal with Chen Tai, he might be targeted by the cavalry of the Shu thieves at any time.

What happened to the infantry when they encountered cavalry in the field plains, even if it was Cao Shuang, it was clear.

Therefore, in this case, Cao Shuang did not attack, and there was a legitimate reason.

If you want to be held accountable afterwards, then you should hold Cao Zhao accountable. If he hadn't wasted the cavalry, why would he have fallen to this step now?!

Anyway, Cao Shuang didn't see Chen Tai's request for help, and continued to shrink in the camp in the rear and stand still.

In terms of official position, Cao Shuang is higher than Chen Tai, in terms of status in the army, Cao Shuang is Sima Yi's protector, and his status in the army is second only to Sima Yi Chen Tai is not qualified to order Cao Shuang.

Therefore, Cao Shuang ignored Chen Tai's military report, and Chen Tai couldn't say anything afterwards.

But when Sima Yi's military order was passed to Cao Shuang's army, asking Cao Shuang to try his best to step forward and respond to Chen Tai's defense, Cao Shuang really couldn't pretend to be invisible anymore.

Yes, Cao Shuang is Sima Yi's protector and can replace Sima Yi when necessary. But this necessary moment is certainly not the case now.

It is wartime, and there is no problem with the military order given by Sima Yi at least on the surface, and Chen Tai has also reported the arrival of reinforcements in advance.

If Cao Shuang does not send troops, it will be disobedience on the battlefield In this case, Sima Yi killed Cao Shuang on the spot, and Cao Yi would not have any opinion.

Therefore, Cao Shuang had no choice but to bite the bullet and personally lead the army to march in the direction of Chentai Yingzhai in the south.

In fact, Cao Shuang is not really that incompetent, and his judgment is not wrong, there is indeed a Liangzhou cavalry led by Pang De around him who is coveted.

If Cao Shuang really has enough ability, the distance from the rear camp to the Chentai camp village, Cao Shuang really has to play some means, such as attacking the east and the west or something, and it is not without a chance to deceive Pang De's cavalry and send reinforcements in time.

It's just that our General Cao, on the one hand, doesn't have this ability, and on the other hand, he is actually afraid of death.

Cao Shuang's biggest shortcoming has always been a strategic vision.

Cao Shuang could see that once Chen Tai's camp outside the city was lost, Yongqiu City would inevitably be besieged by Shu thieves, and this Yongqiu City would be unable to hold it sooner or later.

But in Cao Shuang's eyes, it doesn't matter if Yongqiu City can't be defended, there are Jiyang, Fengqiu, Pingqiu and other places behind him, which can be held one by one. If the Shu thief gnaws all the way through like this, sooner or later he will run out of food and retreat.

He didn't think about what the consequences would be if Yongqiu couldn't hold it and retreated to Jiyang, and the entire Wei army's defense line would be seriously compressed in a narrow area from Jiyang to Suojube.

I'm afraid that even if he Cao Shuang wants to defend it at that time, his soldiers will not be willing to defend it anymore.

Not to mention that the defeat of the army is like a mountain, at least it is also an end of demoralization and inability to fight again.

It's a pity that these consequences, with Cao Shuang's strategic vision, he can't see them.

This is Cao Shuang's lack of ability, and on the other hand, Cao Shuang is indeed afraid of death.

If the Shu thieves were also contained by infantry, then Cao Shuang would not be so procrastinating and not sending troops, but this time the opponent was cavalry.

Infantry against cavalry has a low chance of winning, and once defeated, the result of infantry pursuit and cavalry pursuit is not the same.

The infantry pursued, Cao Shuang himself had horses, and the survival rate was still very high, but the cavalry was different.

The combination of these two led to Cao Shuang being the answering envoy, but he always stood still in his own camp.

But now, Cao Shuang had to lead the troops to go on the expedition, and the military order could not be violated.

It's just that Cao Shuang is still limited by his own ability, he didn't play any tricks, but led the troops out of the camp and went south.

However, thanks to Cao Shuang's fear of death, Cao Shuang walked this way, that is called slow, that is called cautious.

This led to the fact that although Pang De found traces of Cao Shuang's camp, when Pang De led the cavalry troops to prepare to launch a surprise attack on Cao Shuang, he was surprised to find that Cao Shuang did not make any tentative moves when the front reconnaissance cavalry had just discovered the enemy's situation, and very decisively and directly ordered the withdrawal of the army.

Running is called a fast, Pang De led the cavalry to chase after him, but he didn't catch up, so Cao Shuang fled all the way back to the original camp.

And Cao Shuang, who withdrew to the camp, wrote to Sima Yi to inform him of the situation as soon as possible.

It's not that Lao Tzu doesn't follow orders, it's really that Lao Tzu can't do anything!!

(End of chapter)